Western Morning News – Thursday 06 November 1930
PRINCETOWN STATION ROBBERY.
Thomas Sidney Wrayson, aged 28, painter, pleaded ” Guilty to breaking and entering the booking-office of Princetown Railway Station during the night of October 15, and stealing 4s. 7 1/2d. in money, a suit case and contents, packets cigarettes, and other articles, the property of the Great Western Railway Company.
Mr. Hancock, prosecuting, said he understood everything was recovered. Prisoner wished a number of “offences taken into consideration. Sergt. Barnecott said prisoner was a native of Taunton. His mother died during his infancy, and his father deserted him. He served a short period in the Lincolnshire Regiment, being discharged for larceny.
There was long list of previous convictions. Prisoner handed up a statement. His Lordship said since 1918 prisoner had been almost continuously prison, and had had two terms of penal servitude. He had a thoroughly bad record, and a long catalogue of crime.
Wrayson was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude.
